In addition to some incidents of particularly violent crime, in the St. Louis metro area, there was also a handful of truly absurd alleged criminal acts -- everything from drunk showering in the wrong home to bizarre news station harassment to an angry handyman's hammer attack.

Check out our summaries below of the most violent -- and the most strange -- local crime stories of the last 30 days.

The police report about a handyman attacking a former customer with a hammer just gets weirder and weirder as it progresses. Police say that after one man attacked another, they both pulled out their guns.